Table of Contents
Reptiles and Birds Bio 11 Avery
I. Class Reptilia
Advent of the Amniotic Egg - Carboniferous 340 my
II. Reptilian ancestry
B. Major clades
III. Anapsids - skulls with no temporal openings
Characteristics
PPT Slide
3. No teeth
PPT Slide
IV. Diapsids and the rise and reign of the reptiles!
B. Dinosaurs
2. Saurischia
Give rise to first birds - Class Aves
C. Living (extant) Reptiles
Lizard - characteristics
b. Suborder Serpentes
Serpentes - characteristics
2. Order Sphenodonta - tuataras
3. Order Crocodylia
Crocodylia - characteristics
D. Synapsids -
Discussion
Birds
I. What is a Bird
B. General Characteristics
6. No bladder- uric acid (as in other reptiles) for N wastes
II. Feathers
IV. Flight
Qk Flight
IV. Flight
C. Additional adaptations for flight
IV. Avian Respiration
V. Migrations
VI. Conservation
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Author: William E. Avery
Email: averyw@csus.edu
Home Page: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/a/averyw/bio11/lectures11.htm
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